Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Flooding in Cambodia claims at least 30 lives, displaces thousands



នាគព័ន្ធអស់ពិស ទល់ដែនដាច់ខ្សែ





 

A warning from Mother Earth to Hun Sen and the CPP Supporters.
Earth does not want Hun Sen to lead the country anymore.



A Cambodian woman pushes a church gate with an oar to steer her wooden boat in a flooded area along the Mekong river in Koh Phos village, Kandal province near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)


By The Associated Press September 30, 2013


PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - At least 30 people in Cambodia have died in recent floods caused by heavy rains and the Mekong River overflowing its banks, a disaster relief official said Monday.

Keo Vy of Cambodia's disaster management committee the floods have also forced more than 9,000 families to flee their homes and destroyed nearly 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of rice fields.

He added that nearly 67,000 houses were damaged or submerged, as well as 513 schools, 300 Buddhist pagodas and 25 health centres. Nine of the country's 24 provinces have been affected so far, he said.

Four people died Sunday night when their car drove into a flooded pond in the eastern province of Prey Veng, police said.

The government warned that the rains will continue as Typhoon Wutip headed toward neighbouring Vietnam late Monday.

Fatalities and dislocations caused by floods are an annual problem for Cambodia at this time of year. About 250 people were killed in 2011 in the worst flooding in a decade, according to the government.

This year's flooding death toll already has exceeded the 14 people reported killed by flooding in the relatively dry year of 2012.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...


Hun Sen & his henchmen said that the armored car, the tanks and soldiers come to Phnom Penh, in order to help Phnom Penh population
during the comming flooding. Now the flood is coming where are the armored car, the tanks and soldiers?

The are the master of cheap liar and such lie I have heard sine 1970 till now and go to hell.